Anatomy of a thought:

[camwyn]

Oo, the cable went out at the office. So sad.

LJ says we have white smoke.

Habemus papam.

Habemus = we have. Papam should be obvious.

'We have', 'we've got', not so different.

'We've got', 'we got'…

Oh no.

Please don't tell me somebody in the Vatican just got a piece of paper from where the cardinals have been locked up, read the paper, slammed his hand down on a bell, and screamed "WE GOT ONE!" in Latin.

rassum frassum stinkin' friggin' brain.

(edited after the fact to correct my Latin)

Comments

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

Habemas, isn't it? Habemas Papem.

Now I just can't help seeing a cardinal lean over the balcony and yell "We already got one!" in a bad French accent, then whisper to his buddies "Ah tol'em we already got one!"

[camwyn]

Checked, fixed, but still the ref's a good one.

"He says they've already got one!"
"Can we come see it?"
"No! YOu are Church of English types!"

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Habemus = we have.
habeo = I have.

At least none of them picked up the phone and yelled "Hey, Fred, we got us a live one!"

[camwyn]

Fixed, fortunately. I'm going to go find a wire brush and see if I can get the image of a cardinal who looks like Annie Potts out of my head.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Habemus.
Habeam would be "I'd have".

Now that sounds weird. "I'd have a pope, Bill, if you don't mind."

[camwyn]

Fixed now. Fortunately.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Popebusters?

I can already see the logo...

[camwyn]

Lovecraft once said that the most merciful thing in the world was the inability of the human mind to correlate its contents. He meant that humanity simply didn't put the pieces together to see that the universe was at the mercy of things too great and alien and terrible to be believed, but frankly, given how fast my mind correlates its contents, I could do with a little of Lovecraft's mercy now and again...

[oneminutemonkey.livejournal.com]

BWAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

[penguinzero.livejournal.com]

Popeball, GO!

Yes! I caught a Popemon! (Or, in the original Japanese, 'Popemon GET da ze!')

[mephron]

I wish I was home so I could bash together an image of Popeachu.

[cheezdanish.livejournal.com]

So. Much. Love.

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

This (http://www.livejournal.com/users/vivian_shaw/157888.html) is also partially your fault.

[truebluespark]

*after reading post and comments*

'Scuse me for a second, I have to go collect up the pieces of my brain.

[camwyn]

GOD DAMMIT I HAD A WORKING BRAIN WHEN I GOT UP THIS MORNING. I swear I did.

[kaikias.livejournal.com]

Dammit, if only "Habemus papam" scanned to "Hakuna matata"...

[mephron]

Stretch out the 'e' a bit.

"o/~ Ha-bay-ay-mus papam!"

[lwood.livejournal.com]

On a kinda-related note?

JMS is cleaning out his closets:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=18839&item=4719410044&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

[camwyn]

Yeah, I heard back when it was at $65, but I'm not that big a fan. Alas.

[sdelmonte]

Sputter. Sputter.

Of cours, now I'm picturing Pope Peter of Venkman, or maybe Pope Raymondus I would be more likely.

[camwyn]

I'm so sorry. I'm so bloody sorry. The alternative involved the guy who got the paper teetering out through the big bronze doors... and breaking into a wild dance routine because he was Cardinal Six, aka the weird but adorable little old guy from the Six Flags commercials. The buzzer idea just won with its tremendous wrongness.

I really have got to get back to writing Iron Dog material, so as to piss off a few other pantheons enough to balance out my potential across the various hells.

[butterflykiki.livejournal.com]

I think you've crossed that thin line between "fandom" and "obsession"... but at least you're not calling him Pope Sidious like someone on a Star Wars thread is. *roll eyes*

*pats you*

Oy. Janelle has much to answer for.

[camwyn]

*points vaguely upwards at the gamma radiation part of the comments* It's not obsession. My brain does this with nearly anything, not just fandoms that I'm into. F'rex, the Lutheran church I'm considering joining? It's an analogue of Canada. Calmer people, smaller population, more reasonable attitude towards life, founded on principles I can deal with, fewer raving demagogues in charge, plus, it's right next door.

Um. Given my attitudes towards Canada that probably isn't the best example.

[ymfaery]

...

You know, I saw this post this morning, read the comments, chuckled here and there, then attempted to do some work.

Then I come back, saw that the comment count *tripled*, and had to check why.

I don't think I'll be getting any work done for the rest of the day, thankyouverymuch. XD XD XD XD XD

[estherthegb]

.....my head just exploded with the whole "WE GOT ONE!" comment.

[taniwha.livejournal.com]

We Have Popesign?

Usel, we have popesign the likes of which god himself has never seen.

[cheezdanish.livejournal.com]

Oh Jesus now we're in trouble, the pope's gonna eat the crawler and all the spice.

Pope Shai-Hulud. I like it.

Totally unrelated to this post

[almeda.livejournal.com]

... but not to the spirit of it and the mindset.

If you haven't read this entry () you should. I think you'd enjoy it. Also, it mentions the refugee tent cities in Manitoba (hypothetical).

Re: Totally unrelated to this post

[almeda.livejournal.com]

ACK. this entry (http://www.livejournal.com/users/matociquala/488511.html), even, since I was a total idiot and left the link blank in the LAST one.